This paper presents the search of an approach to assess 'integral sustainability'of a new cement called 'Alkali Pozzolan Cement'(APC). It can also be considered as an investigation into the possibility of employing fundamental ...

The scope of this document is to outline different notions of the term resilience used in the scientific literature and explore how the concept of resilience can be applied to energy systems. Thus the major questions to ...

With ever-increasing prices of energy, designing energy efficient buildings has become vital. which demands multidisciplinary effort including architectural and engineering aspects since the early designing stage to day ...

This paper examines 'nature' in the form of natural landscape, focusing on Sri Lankan landscape. Natural landscape in this study is discussed as physical features, physical geography and topography of the earth surface ...

Since 1999, Sri Lanka tends to be in an area prone to natural hazards. In the recent past, the biggest devastation took place on 26th December 2004 when enormous destruction to both life and property was caused by a Tsunami. ...

Rainfall-induced slope failure is a common geotechnical problem in the tropics where residual soils are abundant. Residual soils are formed due to the weathering of rocks and lie at the location of the parent rock. They ...

Thick layers of soft peaty clay encountered in recent infrastructure development projects in Sri Lanka had been improved mainly by different techniques of pre-consolidation. Alternatively, if peaty clay is mixed in situ ...

This paper summarizes the experimental results of a study conducted in order to investigate the effect of initial static shear on the undrained cyclic behavior of saturated sand under cyclic torsional shear loading up ...

Soil Liquefaction is a process, where granular soils below the ground water table temporarily lose their strength due to cyclic loading created by an earthquake. Liquefied soil behaves as a viscous fluid rather than a ...

The composition of natural deposits of peaty soil may vary considerably among different sites, as do their engineering properties. Peat, generally formed in marshy and water logged areas, is usually dark brown to black in ...